One seventh of U.S. is now Hispanic. One in every seven people in the United States is Hispanic, a record number that probably will keep rising because of immigration and a birth rate outstripping non-Hispanic blacks and whites.

The country's largest minority group accounted for half of the overall population growth of 2.9 million from July 2003 to July 2004. According to a Census Bureau report released today.

The agency stated that there are 41.3 million Hispanics in the United States. That number that number is intended to include both legal and other residence.

One in every three people in Texas is Hispanic, according to the 2000 Census data, the latest numbers available.

Nationally, the population growth for Asians ran a close second. Increases in both groups are due largely to immigration, but also higher birth rates said Lewis Goodman, an American University expert on U.S.-Latin American relations

Once again racial demographics work to tilt the balance against what was once a predominantly White European country.